Jimena Ibagon is a Ph.D. student in the Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her B.S. degree in Animal Science from Universidad Nacional de Colombia. In 2020, she became a visiting scholar at the Stein Monogastric Nutrition Laboratory, where she conducted animal experiments and laboratory analyses to determine net energy of feed ingredients fed to swine. Later, she joined the master’s program in the Animal Sciences Department at the University of Illinois. Her master's thesis focused on determining the nutritional value of field peas from different origins and with different particle sizes when fed to growing pigs. She defended her master's thesis in 2023 and is currently working on her Ph.D. Her current research focuses on determining the impact of different feeding programs on N and P excretion and greenhouse gas production. Jimena has published four peer-reviewed manuscripts and six abstracts.